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Pat Williams' Recommended Reading

Overview

The average man, upon finishing high school, will not read another book the rest of his life. That's sad because reading is the brain's best exercise. It's apparent that if you want to continue to grow personally and professionally, and if you want your brain to get stronger as you grow, you must read.

My challenge to you is to read one hour a day. I don't care if it's one 60-minute session, two 30-minute sessions, six 10-minute sessions or sixty 1-minute sessions. If you read one hour a day at an average pace, you will have read one book in a week--that's 52 books in one year! And if you read five books on any one subject, you can be considered a world-leading authority on that subject. So if you read one book a week for one year, you would be a world-leading authority on 10 subjects!

The following are books I've recently read and am pleased to recommend to you. I encourage you to read. It's the best thing you can do for your career, your family and yourself.

I'd love to hear what your reading. Send me your reading recommendations so I can pick them up at my neighborhood Barnes and Noble!

Recommended Books for Fall/Winter 2006

Sports

Few and Chosen by Duke Snider and Phil Pepe
The Girl's Guide to NASCAR by Liz Allison

Golden Girl by Michael Silver
Hammerin' Hank by Mark Stewart and Mike Kennedy
Honus Wagner edited by William R. Cobb
Once They were Angels by Robert Goldman
Phillies Essential by Rich Westcott
Roberto Clemente by Bruce Markusen
Say It So by Phil Rogers
Shades of Glory by Lawrence D. Hogan
Spalding's World Tour by Mark Lamster
Tobacco Road by Alwyn Featherston
Twenty-Six Point Two Marathon Stories by Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson

With the Master Coaches by Grant Teaff
Lombardi and Me by Paul Hornung
Bednarik by Jack McCallum
Commissioner by John A Fortunato
Lapchick by Gus Alfieri
Johnny U by Tom Callahan
Living the Baseball Dream by Danny Litwhiler
Maravich by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill
Tunney by Jack Cavanaugh
Eagles Essential by Thom Loverro
They're Playing My Game by Hank Stram
Driving Home by Jerome Bettis
Not Till the Fat Lady Sings foreword by Doug Flutie
Little League, Big Dreams by Charles Euchner
On and Off the Air by Pat Summerall
Wellington by Carlo DeVito
A Fire to Win by John Lombardo
300 Pounds of Attitude by Jonathan Rand
The Seasons of My Life by Lute Olson
The Steagles by Matthew Algeo
Cherry's Jubilee by Don Cherry
A Well-Paid Slave by Brad Snyder
Guys, Dolls and Curveballs edited by Jim Reisler
The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis
A Great Day in Cooperstown by Jim Reisler


History

The Bronfmans by Nicholas Faith
Catch a Wave by Peter Ames Carlin
Crusader Nation by David Traxel
The Declaration of Independence by Rod Gragg
The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter
The First Men In by Ed Ruggero
Grant by John Mosier
I'm Proud of You by Tim Madigan
The Importance of Being Barbra by Tom Santopietro
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Kristallnacht by Martin Gilbert
The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
A Perfect Union by Catherine Allgor
Politics Lost by Joe Klein
Profiles in Audacity by Alan Axelrod
Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood
A Simple Act of Murder by Mark Fuhrman

My Father, My President by Doro Bush Koch
News of Paris by Ronald Weber
Backlash by Robert Shogan
Journey to a Revolution by Michael Korda
Becoming Eichman by David Cesarani
Blue Monday by Rick Coleman
Warlords by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts
Jimmy Stewart by Marc Eliot
Moscow 1941 by Rodric Braithwaite
The Blue Moon Boys by Ken Burke and Dan Griffin
Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead
America the Last Best Hope by William J. Bennett
The Crusader by Paul Kengor
Losing Our Democracy by Mark Green
The General and Mrs. Washington by Bruce Chadwick


Self-Improvement

Better than Good by Zig Ziglar
Compassionate Leadership by Ted Engstrom and Paul Cedar
Eisenhower on Leadership by Alan Axelrod
An Essential Guide to Public Speaking by Quentin Schultze
If Harry Potter Ran General Electric by Tom Morris
An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
It Came from Within by Andy Stanley
It Takes a Parent by Betsy Hart
Leadership Secrets from the Bible by Lorin Woolfe
Meaningless Words and Broken Covenants by Tim Coody
Pocket Guide to the Bible by Jason Boyett
The Power of Your Words by Robert Morris
Ten Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators by Carmine Gallo
The Transformation of a Man's Heart by Stephen W. Smith
Wins, Losses and Lessons by Lou Holtz
Beyond Basketball by Mike Krzyzewski
How to Succeed in the Game of Life by Christian Klemash
Running Alone by James MacGregor Burns
Winning: The Answers by Jack and Suzy Welch
Healthy at 100 by John Robbins
I'm Not Wonder Woman by Sheila Walsh
Soul Cravings by Erwin MacManus
One Yard Short by Les Steckel
How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life by Art Linkletter and Mark Victor Hansen
The Little Red Book of Wisdom by Mark DeMoss
The Singlehood Phenomenon by Drs. Tom and Beverly Rodgers
Making Judgments without Being Judgmental by Terry Cooper
Napoleon on Project Management
You've GOT to Read this Book by Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks
Creating an Intimate Marriage by Jim Burns and Stephen Arterburn
Married...but Not Engaged by Paul and Sandy Coughlin
The Starbucks Experience by Joseph A. Michelli


Recommend Books for Spring/Summer 2006

 


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